Jeannette Balou-Tchichelle was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1947. She lived there until 1969 and afterwards adopted France as her second home. She works there and lives with her three sons but is still homesick for her country.

Imagine that two personalities of the same individual become embodied separately and meet one another. In the story about to be told in the following pages, this meeting takes place: two women with two totally opposing lives [...] And yet these two women are one and the same...